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color-field painting

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color-field painting, abstract art movement that originated in the 1960s. Coming after the abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
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 of the 1950s, color-field painting represents a sharp change from the earlier movement. The production of the abstract expressionists involved a strong personal emotionalism, a painterly quality, and occasionally, as in the works of Willem de Kooning de Kooning, Willem , 1904–97, American painter, b. Netherlands; studied Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques. De Kooning immigrated to the United States, arriving as a stowaway in 1926 and settling in New York City, where he worked on the Federal Arts
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, elements of cubism cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907. Cubist Theory


Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras.
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. Color-field artists moved toward a more impersonal and austerely intellectual aesthetic. In their works they dealt with what they considered to be the fundamental formal elements of abstract painting: pure, unmodulated areas of color; flat, two-dimensional space; monumental scale; and the varying shape of the canvas itself. Painters associated with the movement include Ellsworth Kelly Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923–, American painter, b. Newburgh, N.Y. He moved to New York City in 1941, studying at Pratt Institute, and later attended the Boston Museum Arts School.
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, Jules Olitski Olitski, Jules , 1922–2006, American painter, b. Russia as Jevel Demikovsky. While considered a color-field painter (see color-field painting), Olitski produced works that are freer and less severe than many of those associated with the movement.
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, Kenneth Noland Noland, Kenneth , 1924–, American painter, b. Asheville, N.C. Noland first experimented with bands of pure color in bull's-eye and chevron motifs and horizontal parallel stripes.
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, Frank Stella Stella, Frank, 1936–, American artist, b. Malden, Mass. In his early "black paintings" Stella exhibits the precision and rationality that characterized minimalism, employing parallel angular stripes to emphasize the rectangular shape of his large canvases.
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, and Morris Louis Louis, Morris, 1912–62, American painter, b. Baltimore. Louis is noted for soaking poured paint through unsized and often unstretched canvas. Prior to 1960 he did a series of veil and floral paintings using overlapping areas of muted, transparent colors in
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Whether or not these individuals incorporated Navajo saddle blanket design into their work is unclear; but it seems more than a coincidence that, beginning in the late 1940s, Rothko's color-field paintings have compositional qualities in common with saddle blanket designs: horizontal bands of color within a contrasted color field and sometimes large areas of color defining two halves of the canvas.
A prototypical work by Lee is a color-field painting that sets dark Prussian blue against the natural beige of unprimed canvas.
Olitski is a total stranger to chromatic subtleties—in his earlier paintings, he proved to have an untroubled command of the stained-canvas technique of color-field painting.
 
 
 
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